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Name: Isenburg County

Type: Polity

Start: 1001 AD

End: 1744 AD

Nation: isenburg

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This article is about the specific polity Isenburg County and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Was a county, and a later a principality, of the Holy Roman Empire located in Hesse.

Establishment


  • January 1001: In the 11th century, the Counts of the Niederlahngau region assumed the name Isenburg.
  • Chronology


    Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation

    1. European wars of religion


    Were a series of wars in Europe (and the overseas possessions of European countries) the 16th, 17th and early 18th that started after the Protestant Reformation. Although the immediate causes of the wars were religious, the motives were complex and also included territorial ambitions.

    1.1.Thirty Years' War

    Was a war that took place mainly in central Europe between 1618 and 1648. The war began as a religious conflict between Catholics and Protestant in the Holy Roman Empire but then escalated into a conflict for the hegemony in Europe between Habsburg Spain and Austria, Sweden and France.

    1.1.1.Bohemian-Palatine period

    Was the first period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with a protestant revolt in Bohemia, at the time a territory of the Habsburg Domains.

    1.1.1.1.War in Palatinate

    Was the theatre of war in Palatinate during the first phase of the Thirty Years' War.

  • December 1621: German Protestant military leader Christian of Brunswick takes Amöneburg, not far from Mainz.
  • September 1622: From the summer of 1622, the territories of the Palatinate on the right bank of the Rhine were occupied by the troops of the Catholc League. Frederick V of the Palatinate eventually lost his electoral dignity on February 23, 1623, which was transferred to Maximilian of Bavaria.

  • 1.1.2.Swedish Period

    Was the third main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of Sweden.

  • December 1631: Gustav Adolf II of Sweden crosses the Rhine with his army and besieges Mainz.
  • December 1632: Swedes under Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin take Deutz.

  • 1.1.3.Franco-Swedish Period

    Was the fourth main period of the Thirty Years' War. It started with the intervention of the Kingdom of France.

    1.1.3.1.North German Front (Sweden)

    Was the north German front during the Franco-Swedish period of the Thirty Years' War.

  • November 1637: After the death of Swedish King Ferdinand II, his son and successor Ferdinand III brought the Swedish troops back to Pomerania, leaving the territories occupied by Sweden in Germany.

  • 1.1.4.Peace of Westphalia

    Were a series of treaties that ended the Thirty Years' War. Catholics and Protestants were redefined as equal in the territories of the Holy Roman Empire. There were major territorial adjustments. In particular, France, Sweden and Brandenburg had major territorial gains, and several religious territories of the Holy Roman Empire were secularized.

  • January 1649: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire at the time of Thirty Years' War.

  • 2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1221: Based on Gustav Droysen's Holy Roman Empire Map at the time of the Hohenstaufen dynasty.

  • January 1305: Isenburg County acquired Büdingen.

  • January 1461: Isenburg county acquired Grenzau.

  • January 1478: Based on Gustav Droysen's Map of the Holy Roman Empire in the XV century.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1745: 1744: Principality.
  • Selected Sources


  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 26-27
  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 34-35
  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), pp. 42-43
  • Schmidt, G. (2006): Der Dreißigjährige Krieg, Munich (Germany), p. 65
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